“Mitt Romney says the president is working with the Italians to move jobs to China,” said Bill Clinton. “There’s this vast and dark conspiracy. I guess next week he’ll come after the Irish and then I’ll be in trouble.” Continue Reading →

Green Party vice presidential candidate Cheri Honkala said that, were she and presidential candidate Jill Stein to win Tuesday’s election, the first thing they’d do would be to enact a moratorium on foreclosures in the United States of America.” Continue Reading →

Bill Clinton criticized Mitt Romney for dismissing climate change and the damage it will cause cities like New York as the oceans rise and warm, and as storms grow more frequent and more deadly. Continue Reading →

The reporter who helped bring national attention to video of Presidential candidate Mitt Romney dismissing 47 percent of the electorate says Romney is now trying to make “lemonade out of turds” with his explanation of what he meant. Mother Jone’s reporter David Corn appeared on Democracy Now this morning to talk about how a grandson of former President Jimmy Carter helped him find the video, but then talked about how Romney has handled the uproar the video has caused. Romney told a Univision town hall Wednesday night that “so many people have fallen into poverty that they’re not paying taxes.” Which is only partially true since most people in poverty are still paying sales taxes and many of them are paying property taxes. Corn says those same people Romney is trying to sound compassionate about were the ones he dismissed in the video. Continue Reading →

Dropping in the polls and stung by the release of a video that shows Mitt Romney dismissing the “47 percent” of voters who will probably support President Obama as “victims”, Romney’s campaign is “desperate” to change the subject says White House Spokesman Jay Carney. Continue Reading →

Presidential candidate Ron Paul preaches about freedom, and fewer government restrictions. However several of the his supporters we talked to in Des Moines think there should be some restrictions on corporate money in politics.Continue Reading →

Saying the Barack Obama has not kept his promises, Progressive Democrats of America founder Tim Carpenter is organizing people to go to the Iowa caucus and vote for “uncommitted” as a way challenge President Obama.Continue Reading →

Jesse Jackson recounts how in the past Democrats had turned against each other and suffered major losses such as Republican Richard Nixon’s election as President in 1968. He strongly advised the occupy movement to avoid the same mistakes. Continue Reading →

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